This is why.
From the Huffington Post:
Guilty of Being Tibetan: Scenes from a Lhasa Prison
“Before, this was the best place, but now it’s like a prison. When I watch TV, everything is lies. So I walk in the streets where the soldiers ask for my identity papers. If there’s the smallest mistake, you’re finished. We should be tolerant but we can’t be tolerant any more.”
This is how one young Tibetan man describes life in Lhasa these days in an interview that was smuggled out of Tibet.* It’s a rare eye-witness testimony by someone who was jailed in the aftermath of the protests in March this year.
This same individual (whose identity is withheld for obvious reasons) describes his arrest and subsequent experiences at Lhasa’s Gondzhe detention center. Chinese police entered his house “broke down five doors, checked everything, threw it all on the floor and hit everyone present. It was like a burglary.” » Read the rest of this entry «